Please stop building obsolete transitional packages

[Amr Ibrahim]

Steps:

1. Change locale to English GB
2. Start language-selector
3. It prompts to install missing packages in English GB
4. The list contains transitional packages of thunderbird, which are not needed any more since Trusty; thunderbird-locale-en-gb and thunderbird-locale-en-us

This happens in Ubuntu Xenial and above.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report.

Well, transitional packages don't hurt, and it wouldn't be worth the effort to maintain code in language-selector to exclude such packages. The right step to take seems to be that the thunderbird source package simply stops building thunderbird-locale-en-gb and thunderbird-locale-en-us.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Amr,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird.

The programmers have decided not to address this problem. They have provided an explanation above.

I am clearing up the old thunderbird tickets. I am changing status of the "thunderbird" portion of this ticket to "won't fix," to match the "language-selector" portion of this ticket.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.
G

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Oops, I can't assign that status. I have set it to "invalid" instead.
Thanks
G

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Hi gf,

I think you misunderstood my note above. My intention was to say that this is a valid thunderbird (Ubuntu) bug.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, Gunnar. I am sorry. My mistake.

So, should a ticket be created at Mozilla Bugzilla?

Take care
:)
G

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

No problem.

On 2018-07-15 21:47, gf wrote:
> So, should a ticket be created at Mozilla Bugzilla?

Not sure, but I would think not. Probably it's just about the Debian/Ubuntu packaging.